“She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits. Of all unicorns, she is the only one who knows what regret is - and love.....”
@Christian Aguiare Shmendrick meant that, in one hundred million years' time, when humans are extinct and are considered fairy tales, the unicorn will still remember Prince Lear and will still love him.
Peter Beagle (author of The Last Unicorn) refused to write a sequel to this for decades but he finally published a short story in a science fiction journal called Two Hearts in 2004. A girl named Sooz lives in a village that is plagued by a griffin. Sooz travels to see the king for his help, and meets Schmendrick and Molly on the way. She reaches the king's castle and finds Lir, who is old, forgetful and in no condition to fight a battle, but he accepts it because he never forgot his quest to someday find the unicorn / Amalthia again. Lir goes to battle with the griffin, and stabs him in his lion's heart. The griffin however has two hearts, a lion and an eagle, and his injured but not killed. Schmendrick calls upon the unicorn with magic, and the unicorn comes to slay the griffin in the eagle heart. Lir dies but is happily reunited with the unicorn before he dies, and she brings the dog who got in the middle of it back to life with her magic horn. She then disappears again, and Molly and Schmendrick bury King Lir. Then Molly teaches Sooz a song that she is only to sing when she turns seventeen and someone will once again appear... I was mostly interested in the unicorn and Lir getting back together, but they have another tragic end to their love.
I love the soundtrack in the movie. It may not be PERFECTLY sung, But their voices are so emotional and go so well with their characters. I love it, This is my favorite movie. I could watch it 100 times and still love it and want to watch it again
AGREED!! While I admit I love the 'more polished' version on the CD.....I LOVE this version in the film! The way the characters seem like REAL people............love it.
I was so surprised to hear this song on Orville last night! The Last Unicorn, where I first heard this song as a kid, was my first thought as soon as the song started. Brought back such fond memories of my favorite childhood movie, we had to watch it afterwards. Lol.
I’m sat here trying to figure out how I just watched the Orville tonight (on Hulu - it aired last night) and somehow your comment and the reply are saying 3y ago, not 3h ago… must be that time travel. 😂😂😂 *I had to look and find they started this weeks episode in 2019 opening the time capsule. Instead of Laura singing the song, Gordon is. And then gets sent back in time to Earth. And the song still makes me sad-happy regardless who sings it!
I just finished watching this episode and this is exactly why I am here too. This song must be etched into my brain somehow even though I haven't heard it since I was 5 years old watching The Last Unicorn every evening.
The Last Unicorn. It has been my favorite movie since I first watched it when I was around 3. Never failed to be my favorite. It’s so special, beautiful. It holds my hopes, my dreams, my tears, my despair, joy, and my heart. I don’t think there will be something like it ever again.
I just rediscovered this movie after years of not seeing it. It's a strange movie, no question, but things are so moving in it. This is one of them. I feel ridiculous, I'm a 40 year old woman and I am tearing up over this song and the setting. It's a beautiful story, very tragic as well.
same here.... I'm a 27-year old woman that listens to the heaviest of heavy metal, and the frontwoman of such a band...... and I'm freakin crying over this lovely song!! XD
Why do you feel ridiculous?? One doesn't stop feeling emotion in their lives until the moment they leave this Earth, unless they shut them down. And who would want to do that? :) This film brought me to tears....both happy, bittersweet, sad, hopeful from first watch at age 10...& always will. I'm 47 now & still smile at it.....and cry.
13 years old, but I love this movie soooooo much! I wish more of the people around me knew this movie and wouldn't laugh at the title before watching it :/
in 1986 I was 6 years old. I took the VHS to school and made my teacher put it on for the whole class. people werent as in love with it as I was. sometimes its nice to keep things a secret and share it with those who truly can see its beauty
I love this movie, and this song is my favorite part. The unicorn has an amazing voice, and the Prince does as well. I love how the Prince says "...I've the time to write a book about the way you act and look, I haven't got a paragraph. Words are always getting in my way, anyway, I love you..." It shows how he really feels and at the same time, he wants the unicorn to stay with him, but also wants her to find her way back to her own place.
this movie was amazing for its time. The acting was grand, the music sublime, and although date now....the animation is lovely. I'm 24, and this is easily one of my favorite movies ever.
The Orville episode "Lasting Impressions" had this song in it sung by "Leighton Meester". This is what brought me here. Both versions are absolutely beautiful.
I think even though they show the clip from the film here, the song sounds like a different woman singing it....the woman from the soundtrack (forgot her name now). Mia's voice in the film is more off-key, but sounds much more emotional. Both versions are beautiful.
@@MarcusTalbert well he was blessed/cursed by a unicorns love so he was loved by all his subjects but he could never love again. That's more how the book puts it. He also succeeded in everything he did but he always missed her. Double edged blessing.
@@MarcusTalbert also ffs schmendrick is almost a thousand years old in this film. That's why his delivery lacks emotion. He's seen it ALL. in the book he was the strongest wizard ever born and sent to study under the greatest wizard of the time but he couldn't even teach him to control his powers so he cursed schmendrick that he'd be eternally young untill he mastered his powers at wich point he'd age again. Also his master was able to turn a unicorn into a man but not back. When schmendrick changed her back he was freed of the curse and could feel it leaving him. That's why he acts so out of it. That's straight out of the book. Its also why he hooks up with Molly. She's old by most standards but not his at ALL.
@@MarcusTalbert I think it's cool that they kept schmendrick true to his character even making people think the actor was just not caring but it was intentional
@@cs-zr9xyThis song was always sung by a professional in the film. Mia Farrow only sung the solo version. On the soundtrack however, the professional sings both (but I personally think they should have kept Farrow's).
Every Friday night, my mom would take my brother and sisters and I to pick a movie to rent. I would always pick this one and my mom would just smile and shake her head ☺️ I loved fantasy, fairy tales and sci-fi as a kid and even now, as a 28 year old woman, I love the nostalgia of this movie, the songs, the quirk. Everything that brought me back my childhood :)
And the two's -- Unicorn and woman -- ripples dance across each other discordantly, unable to be one wave in harmony as they become increasingly distinct individuals.
The beauty of this song is, it is written by a master musical composer, Jimmy Webb. Jeff Bridges has a vulnerability that is perfect in the vocal. Beautiful.
They didn't have to have Mia Farrow and Jeff Bridges sing... but they did. It makes the music here mean more because it's the actors we have grown to know & care about, at least to me. I hope Amalphia & Lir still sing together, in another life in which they did stay together. 💜🎶 I suppose that's a tale for a different day.
This movie used to give me nightmares (first saw it in 1994 at the age of five). when i was 10 my dad forbid me to watch it because of the talking skeleton XD i love this movie. Amalthea is the most gorgeous, beautiful creature on TV (and I say this in the time of CGI and special effects etc.). To me she will always be the best protagonist ever (human or unicorn).
Oh man i had a crush on Lady Amalthea when i was a kid and a teen and thought she was a looker just like Taarna from Heavy Metal, Princess Leia, Teegra from Fire and Ice or Red Sonja when it comes to fantasy chicks. Very nice song
Thank you for making this meaningful and delightful bit of entertainment available. It reached into parts of me I’d forgotten about. This movie is so damned deep!
I remember watching the last unicorn as a kid but my parents told me that they’ve never seen the movie, and neither has my brother, and I remember watching it with them. uhhhhh 😅
Perhaps the greatest magic in this movie is that "America" can see unicorns too. All great mythological creatures have some degree of empathy and humanity in them...that's why it's so hard to let go of them, including dragons.
The problem is that they're so wrong for each other. This song shows them completely ignoring each other, being so completely absorbed in their own lives.
Gene Bradley I remember watching (and drunkenly live tweeting) this movie after a breakup. I remember being devastated by this fact I realised during this song. I'm glad someone else sees it.
They should cut this with the Leighton Meester version, which vocally is so much better, but regardless such a beautiful song from one of my favorite books/movies. Reading it now in fact.
This is a very beautiful song, but the voice is weak, faded, watery and pastel. Needs a voice that is strong and clear yet gentle and loving, standing on its own without the watery echo effects. Give this song a voice to do it justice and you have magic.
If you kinda think about the now that I am a woman if you think about the lyrics once I was searching for something long ago in a place I could not find I frost I though she was talking about finding how to free the Unicron's and whatever bit after now I realize it was something g else but that is obviouse
“She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits. Of all unicorns, she is the only one who knows what regret is - and love.....”
True
😜😚❤️😊🎂😋🙂🙂
🥲
I don’t really know what Schmendrick meant by that, she remembered so was he wrong?
@Christian Aguiare Shmendrick meant that, in one hundred million years' time, when humans are extinct and are considered fairy tales, the unicorn will still remember Prince Lear and will still love him.
Peter Beagle (author of The Last Unicorn) refused to write a sequel to this for decades but he finally published a short story in a science fiction journal called Two Hearts in 2004. A girl named Sooz lives in a village that is plagued by a griffin. Sooz travels to see the king for his help, and meets Schmendrick and Molly on the way. She reaches the king's castle and finds Lir, who is old, forgetful and in no condition to fight a battle, but he accepts it because he never forgot his quest to someday find the unicorn / Amalthia again. Lir goes to battle with the griffin, and stabs him in his lion's heart. The griffin however has two hearts, a lion and an eagle, and his injured but not killed. Schmendrick calls upon the unicorn with magic, and the unicorn comes to slay the griffin in the eagle heart. Lir dies but is happily reunited with the unicorn before he dies, and she brings the dog who got in the middle of it back to life with her magic horn. She then disappears again, and Molly and Schmendrick bury King Lir. Then Molly teaches Sooz a song that she is only to sing when she turns seventeen and someone will once again appear... I was mostly interested in the unicorn and Lir getting back together, but they have another tragic end to their love.
I read it and loved the sequel very much, but maybe you should have written 'SPOILER ALERT' in your comment for those who haven't read it yet...
I apologize. SPOILER ALERT!
There can never be a happy ending because nothing ends.
@@welon17 actually your wrong. Everything ends in some form or another that's what makes life beautifully tragic.
sycamoreleaves74 she didn’t love him anyway. She couldn’t have loved him as a unicorn.
I love the soundtrack in the movie. It may not be PERFECTLY sung, But their voices are so emotional and go so well with their characters. I love it, This is my favorite movie. I could watch it 100 times and still love it and want to watch it again
Me too
It's for that reason me and my wife picked this to be "our song". It's not perfect, but it's honest and sweet.
@@Sol_SeraphTHAT'S BEAUTIFUL! CONGRATULATIONS!
AGREED!! While I admit I love the 'more polished' version on the CD.....I LOVE this version in the film! The way the characters seem like REAL people............love it.
Movie versions > studio versions. OG voices all the way!
I was so surprised to hear this song on Orville last night! The Last Unicorn, where I first heard this song as a kid, was my first thought as soon as the song started. Brought back such fond memories of my favorite childhood movie, we had to watch it afterwards. Lol.
Same I just got done watch Orville and I know I remember the song but I forgot where so here I am now it's so crazy
I’m sat here trying to figure out how I just watched the Orville tonight (on Hulu - it aired last night) and somehow your comment and the reply are saying 3y ago, not 3h ago… must be that time travel. 😂😂😂
*I had to look and find they started this weeks episode in 2019 opening the time capsule. Instead of Laura singing the song, Gordon is. And then gets sent back in time to Earth. And the song still makes me sad-happy regardless who sings it!
Happens when Gen Xers start writing TV.
I just finished watching this episode and this is exactly why I am here too. This song must be etched into my brain somehow even though I haven't heard it since I was 5 years old watching The Last Unicorn every evening.
This movie just pulls on your heartstrings. Every generation needs to know of the beauty of this story.
So true
The Last Unicorn. It has been my favorite movie since I first watched it when I was around 3. Never failed to be my favorite. It’s so special, beautiful. It holds my hopes, my dreams, my tears, my despair, joy, and my heart. I don’t think there will be something like it ever again.
I agree
If I ever get married, I want to dance to this.
I just rediscovered this movie after years of not seeing it. It's a strange movie, no question, but things are so moving in it. This is one of them. I feel ridiculous, I'm a 40 year old woman and I am tearing up over this song and the setting. It's a beautiful story, very tragic as well.
Same here....It's so beautiful.
same here.... I'm a 27-year old woman that listens to the heaviest of heavy metal, and the frontwoman of such a band...... and I'm freakin crying over this lovely song!! XD
Emotions have no age
Hahaha dont feel bad because I’m almost 40 and i feel the same way you fell! And i tear up
Why do you feel ridiculous?? One doesn't stop feeling emotion in their lives until the moment they leave this Earth, unless they shut them down. And who would want to do that? :) This film brought me to tears....both happy, bittersweet, sad, hopeful from first watch at age 10...& always will. I'm 47 now & still smile at it.....and cry.
The quality is so good. After all these years I've never noticed Amalfia's tears at the end when she accepts him.
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I love how from here to where the unicorn is running through the woods, Amalthea's voice sounds like music!
When you feel such feelings for the first time, it honestly makes you question your sanity at first
That's so well put. Thank you for remembering
Pretty cool to see this in such great color! Excellent! I am so used to watching this on an old worn out VHS cassette! Splendid!
Lol
13 years old, but I love this movie soooooo much! I wish more of the people around me knew this movie and wouldn't laugh at the title before watching it :/
in 1986 I was 6 years old. I took the VHS to school and made my teacher put it on for the whole class. people werent as in love with it as I was. sometimes its nice to keep things a secret and share it with those who truly can see its beauty
It's the time of bronies and pegasisters, it's ok to like unicorns
***** Lol
I love this movie, and this song is my favorite part. The unicorn has an amazing voice, and the Prince does as well. I love how the Prince says
"...I've the time to write a book about the way you act and look, I haven't got a paragraph. Words are always getting in my way, anyway, I love you..."
It shows how he really feels and at the same time, he wants the unicorn to stay with him, but also wants her to find her way back to her own place.
Yes I 100% agree, just don’t tell ppl the title
I have always thought this was one of the greatest movies of all time..
I agree
this movie was amazing for its time. The acting was grand, the music sublime, and although date now....the animation is lovely. I'm 24, and this is easily one of my favorite movies ever.
This bring such beauty, peace, love and hope when you don't get that much anymore. The song is so beautiful
The Orville episode "Lasting Impressions" had this song in it sung by "Leighton Meester". This is what brought me here. Both versions are absolutely beautiful.
Priceless poetry from the past still speaks in these noisome times...
And when The Orville uses this song and I start screaming at the TV...
I did the same thing!
@@gennadeau5543 I'm so glad I wasn't alone! My boyfriend thought I was crazy!
It took me a minute to place the tune, but I recognized it immediately. 🚀 It was so awesome even if it makes me sad, I still loved the reference! ☺👍
@@Stereo.Spaceman.X I agree!! I enjoyed it so much!! And have continued to tell anyone who will listen about it! 😁
@@avengingkitty Right on. 👊 It's one of my favorite episodes so far too. 🚀 It has everything! 😍
I remember this had me in my bed crying like a baby at the ripe age of 11. This movie is so good and so nostalgic to me
Whenever Mia sings it sounds like the music instead of a voice. It’s so wonderful
I think even though they show the clip from the film here, the song sounds like a different woman singing it....the woman from the soundtrack (forgot her name now). Mia's voice in the film is more off-key, but sounds much more emotional. Both versions are beautiful.
@@taracollins5597 her name is Katie Irving
Can we please go back to doing animation like this? Warm, hand drawn, authentic... todays stuff is hollow beyond reason.
❤
In the book after this the prince became a just and noble king but he never loved again. I know the feeling.
Glad to know
@@MarcusTalbert well he was blessed/cursed by a unicorns love so he was loved by all his subjects but he could never love again. That's more how the book puts it. He also succeeded in everything he did but he always missed her. Double edged blessing.
@@MarcusTalbert also ffs schmendrick is almost a thousand years old in this film. That's why his delivery lacks emotion. He's seen it ALL. in the book he was the strongest wizard ever born and sent to study under the greatest wizard of the time but he couldn't even teach him to control his powers so he cursed schmendrick that he'd be eternally young untill he mastered his powers at wich point he'd age again. Also his master was able to turn a unicorn into a man but not back. When schmendrick changed her back he was freed of the curse and could feel it leaving him. That's why he acts so out of it. That's straight out of the book. Its also why he hooks up with Molly. She's old by most standards but not his at ALL.
@@BrosBGaming I'm so glad to know that . thanks alot
@@MarcusTalbert I think it's cool that they kept schmendrick true to his character even making people think the actor was just not caring but it was intentional
So blown away at how amazing the audio is. Thank you so much.
Me too
So beautiful!
My fiancé and I are going to dance to this as our first couples song. I’m obsessed with it
Awesome
BEAUTIFUL!
film it and post it to youtube! Everyone would love to see that! I certainly would
Pick the Orville edition. 🥰
I love this movie, I remember when I first watched it when I was younger, I'm 19 now. And I love the music and animation.
😊
i watched this movie tons when i was little and i still adore it to this day
Me too
Mia Farrow's voice still makes me start crying. I love it so much
Jeff Bridges did do the singing, but the the girls part was sung by a professional singer.
@@Handsolo313 no no the professional singer was in the Soundtrack, it was a different voice.
@@godsclown4419 this is the revamped version they put out in 2007 that replaced her voice in the movie as well
@@cs-zr9xy oh my, I didn't know that, interesting
@@cs-zr9xyThis song was always sung by a professional in the film. Mia Farrow only sung the solo version. On the soundtrack however, the professional sings both (but I personally think they should have kept Farrow's).
Every Friday night, my mom would take my brother and sisters and I to pick a movie to rent. I would always pick this one and my mom would just smile and shake her head ☺️ I loved fantasy, fairy tales and sci-fi as a kid and even now, as a 28 year old woman, I love the nostalgia of this movie, the songs, the quirk. Everything that brought me back my childhood :)
In other words, now that you're a woman, now you know the way?
1:54
I live for this part. Amalthea's voice sounds like music,
1:57 I melt even more. God I wish I could crawl into this film & live there with the unicorn & others!!!
😂
just a small detail, but i love how after the unicorn looks at amalthea, it look at it's own reflection in the water, like it somehow recognizes her
OMG i freaking repeat that moment in this video like tons because I like that same detail
And the two's -- Unicorn and woman -- ripples dance across each other discordantly, unable to be one wave in harmony as they become increasingly distinct individuals.
The beauty of this song is, it is written by a master musical composer, Jimmy Webb. Jeff Bridges has a vulnerability that is perfect in the vocal. Beautiful.
❤ Yes
I love Jeff bridges and this song! Wish the song was longer. Such a great movie
This video made me love the song more, the sound improvement is amazing. Glad TH-cam recommended this.
Lady Amlathea and princ Lir. Forever in my dreams. Love the theme last unicorn. ❤️🦄💃😍😊
They didn't have to have Mia Farrow and Jeff Bridges sing... but they did. It makes the music here mean more because it's the actors we have grown to know & care about, at least to me. I hope Amalphia & Lir still sing together, in another life in which they did stay together. 💜🎶 I suppose that's a tale for a different day.
It wasn't Mia Farrow it was Katie Irving who also sang now that I'm a woman
I posted that comment 4 years ago below, something brought me back and I am crying again. Tragic and sad ...
This movie was my childhood
This movie used to give me nightmares (first saw it in 1994 at the age of five). when i was 10 my dad forbid me to watch it because of the talking skeleton XD i love this movie. Amalthea is the most gorgeous, beautiful creature on TV (and I say this in the time of CGI and special effects etc.). To me she will always be the best protagonist ever (human or unicorn).
Awesome
Oh man i had a crush on Lady Amalthea when i was a kid and a teen and thought she was a looker just like Taarna from Heavy Metal, Princess Leia, Teegra from Fire and Ice or Red Sonja when it comes to fantasy chicks.
Very nice song
Thank you for making this meaningful and delightful bit of entertainment available.
It reached into parts of me I’d forgotten about. This movie is so damned deep!
Thank you for bringing such a beautiful song back ..thats all I have to say...
I'm just lost of words, that was lovely. :)
This will forever be with me
Such a beautiful song...reminds me of my old crush.
F
Love that they covered this in The Orville!
Yes ❤
Stunning still
Never knew how good can Bridges sing, even in a movie that isn't Disney.
This movie and the dark crystal are my go to for retreating back to a kid. Much to be said about things that last
I remember watching the last unicorn as a kid but my parents told me that they’ve never seen the movie, and neither has my brother, and I remember watching it with them. uhhhhh 😅
That movie Enchanted me & I love it💖💖💖💖💖
“There are two children who will never be born.”
“And a future that will.”
Really loved the Meester & Grimes duet version in Season 2! Also tears up rewatching that one after last week's S3 E7
This had me thinking about my girlfriend making me cry, but it was happy tears
The Orville: Season 3 Episode 6 brought me here and I totally forgot this song was even in this movie. Mind blown
You should watch the Last Unicorn movie, this coming from of fan of The Orville.
Happy 2022 everyone
The Orville brought me here.
This is why my little pony doesn’t cut it for me. This is my unicorns.
Lol
This song is so romantic.💕
Someone please make the a video of Lir and Amalthea with the song "Cant fight this feeling anymore"
Perhaps the greatest magic in this movie is that "America" can see unicorns too. All great mythological creatures have some degree of empathy and humanity in them...that's why it's so hard to let go of them, including dragons.
I learned these songs by hard from watching the movie repeatedly.
People would say what song is that you're singing??
Just Smile and keep singing.
God, I’d love to hear a rendition of this song, sung in duet by Dan Avidan and Aurora Aknes.
Awesome to know
Who else stumbled here because of orville? :D
I got remembering this old precious gem from 10 Saddest Animes, even though it isn't one...
The problem is that they're so wrong for each other. This song shows them completely ignoring each other, being so completely absorbed in their own lives.
"Unicorn, mermaid, vampire, gorgon, werewolf, elf, sorceress, gargoyle...no name you would give her would surprise or frighten me i love whom i love";
Gene Bradley I remember watching (and drunkenly live tweeting) this movie after a breakup. I remember being devastated by this fact I realised during this song. I'm glad someone else sees it.
Brand Neil
Do you think Lir's quote has meaning?
Who's watching this because of The Orville?
Sorry for you to not discover the Last Unicorn movie first, this coming from someone who absolutely adores The Orville.
September 30th? That's my birthday!
One of Rankin/ Bass's best animated feature films. Well, all of them are good anyway.
memories
Amalthea reminds of Dany with how she has Valyrian features.
Great song too
Anyone else here due to The Orville?
No. Due to The Last Unicorn movie, this coming from a fan who adores The Orville show.
My heart ❤️ is to full
This movie is definitely one of my favorites from Disney. Really cool illustrations, and amazing soundtrack
I agree
I hated that beautiful bittersweet ending... Made me cry 😭
Makes me sad that they can’t be together
Yes but it's still so beautiful
Things have certainly changed
The way I still wish I looked like the unicorn
Who knew Jeff Bridges had a talent for singing?
The animation it soo good for its time what studio is it from dose anyone know?
I believe it's the company that would eventually become Ghibli for totoro and spirited away
Rankin-Bass! And yes, many of the members of this team went on to be the original Studio Ghibli.
Prince Lier is a man amongst men
Aaaaa no manches qué chido suenan fusionadas
They should cut this with the Leighton Meester version, which vocally is so much better, but regardless such a beautiful song from one of my favorite books/movies. Reading it now in fact.
She is a pretty singer but no, it is as it should be.
I know right??? I have been looking like crazy but nothing
Can we just all agree this is relationship goals at its finest?
Hey Christopher lee died you could make a commentary on this film in his memory
Because he voiced king haggard
Why couldn't we get this in True Grit😄
watch Welcome to the Basement's episode in which they review this. You will never view this song the same way
RIP Jules Bass
This is a very beautiful song, but the voice is weak, faded, watery and pastel. Needs a voice that is strong and clear yet gentle and loving, standing on its own without the watery echo effects. Give this song a voice to do it justice and you have magic.
I can’t believe they kissed.
Voice of Arthur Garfunkel
💘💘💘💘💘
The Orville
This reminds me of Despicable Me and the Minions for some reason! Any explanations?
If you kinda think about the now that I am a woman
if you think about the lyrics once I was searching for something long ago in a place I could not find
I frost I though she was talking about finding how to free the Unicron's and whatever bit after now I realize it was something g else
but that is obviouse
Lol
They do not make anything the same anymore. Because they don't draw the feeling into it. computers can't replace art.
True
1:54 your welcome
For what?
OK Jerome skies Audrey Keaton and my mom to she should I pick me up my boat there probably way home should ask her to pick me up
The sound/musc is odd and off